An examination of the meaning of meaninglessness: why it matters that nothing matters.
When someone is labeled a nihilist, it's not usually meant as a compliment. Most of us associate nihilism with destructiveness and violence. Nihilism means, literally, “an ideology of nothing. “ Is nihilism, then, believing in nothing? Or is it the belief that life is nothing? Or the ...
An examination of the meaning of meaninglessness: why it matters that nothing matters.
When someone is labeled a nihilist, it's not usually meant as a compliment. Most of us associate nihilism with destructiveness and violence. Nihilism means, literally, “an ideology of nothing. “ Is nihilism, then, believing in nothing? Or is it the belief that life is nothing? Or the belief that the beliefs we have amount to nothing? If we can learn to recognize the many varieties of nihilism, Nolen Gertz writes, then we can learn to distinguish what is meaningful from what is meaningless. In this addition to the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Gertz traces the history of nihilism in Western philosophy from Socrates through Hannah Arendt and Jean-Paul Sartre.
Although the term “nihilism” was first used by Friedrich Jacobi to criticize the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, Gertz shows that the concept can illuminate the thinking of Socrates, Descartes, and others. It is Nietzsche, however, who is most associated with nihilism, and Gertz focuses on Nietzsche's thought. Gertz goes on to consider what is not nihilism—pessimism, cynicism, and apathy—and why; he explores theories of nihilism, including those associated with Existentialism and Postmodernism; he considers nihilism as a way of understanding aspects of everyday life, calling on Adorno, Arendt, Marx, and prestige television, among other sources; and he reflects on the future of nihilism. We need to understand nihilism not only from an individual perspective, Gertz tells us, but also from a political one.
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Nolen Gertz is Assistant Professor of Applied Philosophy at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.
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0 有用 yuwww 2023-10-27 17:26:38 广东
第一本英文书，梳理了很多谈到过虚无主义的哲学家，还是没能解决我的虚无主义症结，或许是无解吧。
0 有用 Amos 2023-01-13 19:20:52 广东
Insightful!
0 有用 牧之 2024-08-20 07:16:00 美国
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2 有用 athanos 2020-04-06 15:27:36
像是读书笔记的连缀，总之我没有看出一以贯之的逻辑，只有些许警句而已。
3 有用 口W口 2022-02-02 23:34:30
有些有趣的观点(political relevance and as a problem of the system/society instead of individual)，但后半段的逻辑让人很迷惑……